Disguised as an academic project, Camelot was a covert tool of the John F. Kennedy administration in the 1960s aimed at ensuring US global hegemony and controlling social and transformation movements anywhere on the planet.

“The United States chose Chile as a laboratory because of its insularity—it’s a country isolated from the world—and also because they considered it to be homogeneous and lacking major differences,” explained the author.

Characterized as a non-fiction novel, the work is divided into three parts, the first of which, which occupies almost 70 percent, is factual. “Everything that happens there—the names of the characters, the situations and dates, the documents—are true,” said the writer.

But the book has two narrative threads: on the one hand, the story itself, and on the other, a journalist investigating the scope of the project unveiled in 1965.

“This plan has transformed; its name and team have changed, but what hasn’t changed is the United States’ goal of hegemony and domination,” said the author of the text, presented at the Living Gallery in the Lastarria neighborhood of Mexico City.

For the writer, Camelot is the precursor and starting point of the algorithms that today control and manipulate us day by day, second by second, moment by moment.

At the presentation, sociologist and academic Maria Emilia Tijoux explained that this book reveals the intricacies of a social research project aimed at measuring and predicting the causes of revolutions and insurgencies in Latin America and how to control them.

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